Robert N Glidden JR

Robert N Glidden JR, a sole proprietor based in New Braintree, Massachusetts, operating as Great Oak Services, delivers civil works construction and infrastructure maintenance services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District as a total small business set-aside prime contractor. The vendor operates exclusively under small business set-aside vehicles, with 100% of recent awards designated as total small business set-asides, and competes through a portfolio of blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts with the Corps.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on water resource facility maintenance and repair work at Corps-managed dam and lake sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. Recent representative work includes a $58.6 thousand purchase order awarded September 2024 for fire road repair, culvert replacement, and drainage enhancement at Littleville Lake in Huntington, Massachusetts; a $23.2 thousand call for access road repairs and security gate replacement at Hodges Village Dam in Oxford, Massachusetts (June 2024); and a $19.9 thousand order for playground equipment installation at Barre Falls Dam in Barre, Massachusetts (September 2025). Earlier awards span boat ramp debris cleanup, habitat restoration, mechanical vegetation removal, gate replacements at multiple facilities, and campground road repairs across the Lower Connecticut River Basin and surrounding region.

Customer concentration is absolute. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District New England accounts for 81 of 85 awards and $1.8 million of the $2.1 million combined potential value (86% of total portfolio), with a secondary relationship to the broader Department of the Army accounting for three awards at $30 thousand. The vendor has worked continuously with the same contracting office since at least 2006.

The vendor places task orders under five named blanket purchase agreements with the Corps: the BPA W912WJ20A0011 (established May 2020, carrying a $250 thousand three-year ceiling) anchors recent work with six task orders at $57 thousand combined value; W912WJ11A0007 carries 21 task orders at $255 thousand; W912WJ15A0015 carries 14 task orders at $97 thousand; W912WJ08A0014 (an indefinite delivery contract) carries eight task orders at $43 thousand; and W912WJ10A0003 carries five task orders at $47 thousand. Award activity has remained modest and episodic — three awards in 2021, five in 2022, three in 2024, four in 2025, one in 2026 — with only one award (valued at $7 thousand) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor invoiced $838 thousand against a combined potential value of $2.1 million across all awards, or 40% of ceiling, indicating the portfolio remains partially drawn. The vendor maintains no subcontractor footprint and receives no prime awards outside the Corps' New England District civil works program.